I just got my Telraam traffic counter up and running on Fairview Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA. What a great device! @telraam.bsky.social

This event looks fantastic! I have to miss it for an important milestone but I'm excited to catch the details. Please consider attending. I mean just LOOK at that value per acre; this is pure map porn.

Join us as we phonebank virtually for Sustain-endorsed County Commissioner D5 candidate Rebecca Noecker this Thursday March 19th at 5:30pm. Training provided, no experience necessary!☎️🗳️ Support an active and engaged county by supporting Rebecca! RSVP actionnetwork.org/events/phone...

Streets are for people, but only on vacation

Boycotts are pretty silly and I can't believe most of you are serious.

Thinking of this viral tweet and how 6 years later it feels like we are right on track.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

For this, the state decided to execute him.

This guy speaks for all of us in Minneapolis.

Abolish DHS. Prosecute ICE.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

Let this radicalize you.

I received my national news magazine today and...wow. this is truly the perspective every American needs to feel.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Cowboy hats always look stupid. Especially so on Mar-a-Lago-faced bootlickers.

For people who make their whole identity talking about fighting a tyrannical government, the 2A obsessives sure don’t say shit when the government engages in actual tyranny, including the execution of an unarmed citizen

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

New apartments are more expensive than older apartments; but they hold down prices across the board by soaking up demand from wealthier people. Without those new apartments you’d have San Francisco, where crappy unrenovated 1br apartments in 100+ year old buildings cost $3,500/month.

All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.

13 years ago today.

Armed ICE agents trapped U.S. citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every single person was a U.S. citizen.

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

I strongly support sidewalks and walkability, yet I'm extremely skeptical of municipal sidewalk clearing proposals in the Twin Cities. I don't think it's possible for them to deliver the speed and quality necessary, let alone to justify the cost.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Extreme levels of whimsy as turkeys take over the street. I just love this!

My 82-year-old mother has a habit of forwarding texts without any warning or attribution, so I'll get notifications like "I fell and broke my wrist" but it will actually be from an acquaintance of hers. SMH.

The "Save Our Street" anti-safety Summit Avenue people are just plain wrong, and their selfishness has consequences.

BREAKING: At least 36 people killed, 279 missing after fire rips through apartment buildings in Hong Kong, official says

Wild turkeys are taking over my yard!

A 6,015 pound Suburban and its 300 pound driver driving at 83 miles per hour is 1.97 million joules of potential energy. This is the equivalent of an adult falling 8,235 feet. Keeping people safe requires laws that are enforced.

Hey winter cyclists: the smartest thing I've done after threatening to do it for too many years was actually write down what to wear based on temperature. This helped immensely last year, and winter is coming 🥶

Minnesota has been shaken to its core by political violence this year. We know first hand that rhetoric like this has real life consequences. Everyone should call this out for what it is - the sitting president calling for deaths of Members of Congress. This is what dictators do.

About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul

The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world. news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...

It's a slow news day so I decided to share my St. Paul Mayoral election first choice votes dot density map. Same deal as my Minneapolis map. All points are randomly placed within each precinct. Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts! arcg.is/19uH482

The northern lights are visible over Saint Paul!

This photograph had better win a goddamn Pulitzer

a strong belief i have is that it is ok to occasionally be wrong about things, even in public, as long as you're open to changing your mind in the face of compelling arguments or evidence. but i could be wrong about that

I skew a bit to the center left and I would 100% vote for Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, no question. I hope he wins!

Happy Halloween from a drizzly Saint Paul!

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

SHORT VERSION: I’m voting yes on both ballot questions & @melvincarter.bsky.social for Mayor. LONG VERSION: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Marking myself safe from the third major layoff of my career.

Rollover car crash drama in front of my house yesterday afternoon. Everyone was okay. Very predictable given the weird lane configuration during a construction project. The northbound lane is closed but cross traffic doesn't realize the southbound lane is still open.

Very excited to learn my fate!

Gosh, who would have thought that legalizing widespread gambling would lead to corruption and criminal involvement in sports?